Do Not Submit To Directories!

Now this is the new trend throughout the seo forums as well as some of the other webmaster forums. Now I submitted manually to thousands trying to get the backlinks and still belive dmoz gives off good link juice yet there are many that disagree. Is there anyone here that believes this is true that submitting to directories actually hurts your chances on google or any other search engine. Anyway I would like to hear about your experiances with directories good and bad.

 

I think if you submit to low quality directories that are just considered linkfarms by google's standards then you are hurting your website's authority. But if you submit to quality directories then it is a plus for you site.

 

If it does no good it can’t do any bad

 

Keep submitting don't worry what people say, if it was so bad, then you could just submit your competitors site and make him lose his Ranking.

 

So how do we differentiate between high quality and low quality directories? Just search in google and see if the directory is de-indexed? I think most directories have some PR and rather good Alexa rank, they would not do much harm. On the other hand, even if you submit to a bidding directory, shouldn't the penalty be on the directory site rather than those who bid for a listing?

LOL, you're a genius

Anyway, IMHO directory submission does more good than harm. Google and other search engines cannot ignore your site when you have over a few hundred links. However, the concern about your site gaining unnatural links over a period of time is real and present. What do you think about this?

 

Well I once had this good site so I submitted it to 1,000 directories per month for a year along with other promoting.

Now it is top dog for tons of keywords that are SUPER competitive.

 

believe whatever you want
the ones who "get it" will not listen to your nonsense

 

I agree, you can't really tell the difference between good and bad directories. But to start I would only submit to directories with a valid pr.

And i wished the penalty was only on the directory site but that doesn't always seem to be the case.

Overall if submit to many directories it probablly does more good than harm.

 

I see, I submit to over 300-400 directories, but it haven't BL to my site 3 months ago

 

Quality is more important than quantity. Low quality directories actually will hurts our site due to unstable.
That's very good if only submit to those high quality directories

 

Good point!
This is what I thought everytime someone said submitting to directories would be bad

 

Hi,

Thanks for the information.

Ashwin.

 

you can get your keyword in ranking with these directories, what ever be no matter you can get your keywords in top position that most important

 

Perhaps what he meant is not to do a lot in a short time frame?

 

Submitting to directories works great for me and my clients

I have many high ranking websites, all are listed in tons of web directories.

Thanks Brian

 

Submitting to any directory (goo or bad) can't do any harm to your site.

P.S. If you care so much about google, then check out the (google)PageRank for directories you submit your link to.I recommend you to start your submissions from PR0, this is a sign Google knows about that site, so this way you know the site is not banned or seen as a harmful site to google.

Peace !

 

Yes, you are right that submitting in high PR directories the you will get the juice for your site!

 

Directory submission is not as profitable as it was before, but you cannot exclude it from your SEO campaign. Go and submit to directories withotu any peanalty worries.

 

Absolutely, directory submissions won't harm you but it may not be a useful as before.

 

I have submitted in hundred of directories but not yet get any single backlink from them, its wasting time activity